In Europe we have a number of bullion dealers selling common precious metal coins, and they usually post both the selling and buy-back price, so...
I generally soak coins with crap on the surface in "universal nitro paint thinner" for 2 weeks. This doesn't always work wonders, but frequently...
For the last few days gold has been tanking, but I'm not too worried. The Covid spending spree has to lead to inflation. Now silver has the...
Lithuania 5 Litai 1925[ATTACH]
Here is one of my favorite coin images: "The king called, and everyone came. With God for King and Fatherland"[ATTACH]
And you wanted another horsewoman...[ATTACH]
Bull and horseman Jital from the Shahi kings of Kabul.[ATTACH]
And last, another 3-Kreuzer 1835, this time from the kingdom of Bavaria. 1.2 g Ag 333, 17 mm. You can just make out the text "LAND MUNZ".[ATTACH]
Second, 3 Kreuzer 1835 from the Grand Duchy of Baden. 1 g Ag 375, 16 mm.[ATTACH]
Last year my brother-in-law gave me a box of old coins he had no use for. I was naturally delighted. Here are three that fit in this thread....
Sorry, maybe I'm blind, but that doesn't look like the same coin at all. E.g. the kind of cross-hatched leaf at the bottom of the reverse (or at...
I bought this 20-mark piece before I realized I needed to keep track of the price paid, so I can't tell you how much I paid, but it was in...
A 2/3 Thaler from 1693, Friedrich III. A number of 1/3 and 2/3 Thaler were struck in this era because 2/3 Thaler = 1 Gulden, which was common...
Here's a 1/8 Melgarejo, though it doesn't have the denomination marked. 2.4 g 19 mm. Struck to "celebrate" Gen. José Mariano Melgarejo's seizure...
Thanks everyone for the info.
Thanks all for your comments. I just saw another one on ebay weighing 14.9 g, so I'll just assume Mussolini may have made the trains run on time,...
Thanks for the tip. I didn't even know they issued passport cards too.
Does Sarawak with its white rajah count as a colony?[ATTACH]
Here's 10 centimes Colonies Francaises (=French West Indies) 1825.[ATTACH]
... and here's a 1 Pesa piece from 1892.[ATTACH]
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